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"They're just
destroying us," the billionaire businessman, a long-time critic
of China's currency policy, said in a CNN interview.
"They keep devaluing their currency until they get it right.
They're doing a big cut in the yuan, and that's going to be
devastating for us."
Earlier on Tuesday, China devalued its currency following a
series of poor economic data in the yuan's biggest fall since
1994. Some said this could signal a long-term slide in the
exchange rate.
China has been a frequent theme for Trump since he entered the
2016 presidential campaign, promising to be a tougher negotiator
with Beijing in order to bolster the U.S. economy.
"We have so much power over China," he told CNN. "China has
gotten rich off of us. China has rebuilt itself with the money
it's sucked out of the United States and the jobs that it's
sucked out of the United States."
(Writing by Bill Trott; Editing by Susan Heavey and Lisa Von
Ahn)
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